Game News Beamdog announce Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

[Elhoim]

They could have removed a bit of the fog at least.

 

[ArchAngel]

Best parts of Red Alert 3 was also the cutscenes.
And it was also main reason why C&C Generals was less popular at first (until people figured out it has best PvP)

 

[DavidBVal]

Kind of an interesting part of the PC games history, right? Nobody would do that anymore. It's endearing to watch this again. Heck, I might even replay Wing Commander 3 and 4 and enjoy those Mark Hamill idle cutscenes.



I'm curious about the figures behind this. I don't remember prices quadrupling or anything, yet making a game with up to 2h of film, including always a couple famous actors, doesn't sound cheap. I wonder if it made companies go broke?

 

[Cross]

I'm curious about the figures behind this. I don't remember prices quadrupling or anything, yet making a game with up to 2h of film, including always a couple famous actors, doesn't sound cheap. I wonder if it made companies go broke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_III:_Heart_of_the_Tiger

Wing Commander III ultimately cost $4 million to produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_IV:_The_Price_of_Freedom

WCIV was produced on the then-unheard-of-for-a-video-game budget of $12 million USD. The majority of this budget went into the production of the game's full motion video scenes, which were shot on actual sets instead of a greenscreen and using 35mm film instead of digital capture.

 

[DavidBVal]

According to wikipedia list of best sold games, WC3 sold 1 million copies. If I remember correctly games costed around 30-35 bucks back then? Sounds like they did well.

 

[commie]

According to wikipedia list of best sold games, WC3 sold 1 million copies. If I remember correctly games costed around 30-35 bucks back then? Sounds like they did well.

Dunno, maybe in the promised land of AmeriKKKa. I paid 119 dollars for WC3 in 1995 in Australia. Worth every penny. In fact though, most games were 59.99 to 89.99 range even then.

 

[Morkar Left]

119 DM for Warcraft 1 (around 55 €)

 

[Fenix]

That was pretty awesome, though.

I remember some fellow showed Phantasmagoria on 8 CD...

 

[Konjad]

What a waste or time

I choose "what a time"

 

[Drax]

How about fixing the damn NWN2's kafkian controls motherfuckers?

 

[Decado]

NWN was such a letdown. It was birthed as a true multiplayer DnD experience so you could make and share modules with your DnD friends, but it felt like a single player game with a tacked-on, shitty companion system.

 

[Black]

Yeah, early days of any technology tend to do that. I remember the days when CD games arrived, and suddenly every game needed 3 hours of cutscenes with real actors.

That was pretty awesome, though.
I mean... there were people not loving all those wonderful cheesy C&C, Emperor: Battle for Dune, MechWarrior 4, etc. scenes?
I really miss them. Much better than most in-game stuff.

Westwood cutscenes were on whole other level.
Still <3

 

[logrus]

This is low, even for Beamdog. It's just a glorified patch ffs! They did not touch the graphics, animations, UI, nothing. No new added content. That's lazy as fuck.
I guess their plan is to charge suckers for the game they have probably already bought twice (physical + gog) and sell them some more "premium modules" with tranny orcs fuckin teen elves. I guess now they will decide that even IWD2 EE is doable, 2 crucial bugfixes + repacked installer = killer release. Mystery is what they will do after NWN2 and IWD2 when there is nothing more to "enhance"?

I'm disappointed with this cash grab. I really liked NWN (played at the time of release), dispite its flaws. It did not matched the BG series, but I had my share of releax and fun playing the game and especially some top-quality community mods!

 

[ArchAngel]

At this point Beamdog are a group of people that raid an elephant graveyard, get all the bones into right places, put a sheet of linen colored into elephant skin over it and sell it to some Zoos (suckers)

Someone needs to put a stop to their unholy ways

 

[DragoFireheart]

Beamdog should come full circle and do an Enhanced Edition of Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

 

[Black]

My sources tell me that through Beamdawg's amazing patching Lady Arbeit has grown a magnificent schlong.

 

[UnknownBro]

A $20 texture pack, and a really bad one. What a shameless ripoff.
Those are even the same low poly models from the original!

I don't know what's worse, these amateurish modders calling themselves "developers" or the consumers that buy eat their products crap.

 

[ArchAngel]

A $20 texture pack, and a really bad one. What a shameless ripoff.
Those are even the same low poly models from the original!

I don't know what's worse, these amateurish modders calling themselves "developers" or the consumers that buy eat their products crap.

What texture pack, you don't even get that.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

A $20 texture pack, and a really bad one. What a shameless ripoff.
Those are even the same low poly models from the original!

I don't know what's worse, these amateurish modders calling themselves "developers" or the consumers that buy eat their products crap.

What texture pack, you don't even get that.

Probably the texture in the loading screen that adds a Beamdog logo.